Tamiko Nimura

RECENT EVENTS

2023

”Writing About Family” (book launch and conversation with author Susan Ito), King’s Books, 11/12/23

Featured reader, Creative Colloquy Crawl (10/23)

Featured speaker, Day of Remembrance, “Remember and Resist,” Puyallup, Washington (2/23)  

Lakewold Gardens, Lit Fest, featured author (2/23)

2022

Panelist, “How Comics Frame History,” Seattle Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI), 11/22)

Panelist, “Art and Memory: Preserving the Legacy of The Incarceration Through Art” Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages (JAM Pilgrimages) (10/17/22)

June 14, 2021, 6PM 
Densho/Seattle Public Library/Elliott Bay Books
Online conversation with Frank Abe, Tamiko Nimura, Ross Ishikawa, moderated by Tom Ikeda of Densho
 

June 26, 2021, 2PM  

Japanese American National Museum (JANM)


SELECTED PRESS

2022

“ArtTown Tacoma: Tamiko Nimura” (profile)

Selected Press for We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration

Tacoma News Tribune (5/8/21), “Tacoma author’s family history shapes graphic novel on resistance to WWII internment”


Newspaper

2020, “Tacoma Arts Month looks to connect people feeling isolated because of COVID-19 pandemic,” 10/12/20

Television

2022, “Japanese Exclusion,” Northwest Now, KBTC (air date 2/18/22)

2020, “Community Engagement Artists,” Cityline Tacoma (air date 10/30/20)

2020, “KBTC Profiles: Remembering Tacoma’s Nihonmachi,” KBTC Tacoma, air date 9/1/20 

Podcast Interviews

2022,  “Tamiko Nimura waxes rhapsodic,” We Art Tacoma podcast

2020, “Lift as You Climb,” Paw’d Defiance podcast 

2020 “Tamiko Nimura, Writer and Biographer of Senator Rosa Franklin,” We Art Tacoma podcast